Episodes 30
Avg. Duration 55m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.4 (7)
Since Jan 2025
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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About This Podcast

In a world filled with food fiction, fables and half-truths, how do we build a better food future and save the planet while we’re at it? Without fooling ourselves. Debunking the common and audience-supplied food mythology with entertaining facts from a real, honest-to-goodness professional scientist. Combining policy, pragmatic takes, and a willingness to hear dissent, one scientist attempts to promote factual takes on food myths.

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Recent Episodes

The Case for Cultivated Meat

Apr 10, 2026 17m

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The Price of Plenty (of Meat) with Maureen Ogle

Apr 03, 2026 50m

Maureen Ogle spent years tracing how Americans built one of the most productive and destructive food systems on earth. Her book, The Price of Plenty, is a history of meat in America: from colonial…

Designing Dinner with Dr. Andrew Stout

Feb 19, 2026 1h

Dr. Andrew Stout trained in the lab that created the world's first cultured hamburger. Now, as the first full-time cellular agriculture faculty hire at Tufts University, he's building the next…

The Future of Meat with Bruce Friedrich

Feb 03, 2026 53m

Summary In this episode of Food Truths, Eric interviews Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute and author of the brand new book, Meat. Eric and Bruce discuss the evolution of meat…

Goodbye Red Dye and Hello New Food Pyramid! (CES Live Session)

Jan 30, 2026 41m

In this live onstage session, Food Truths host Eric Schulze discusses the rapidly changing food business and regulatory environment, including the just-announced (an hour before the panel!) new food…

Right in Front our Eyes: Ross Milne of Leaft Foods

Dec 23, 2025 50m

Did you know the most abundant protein in the world is from plants, not animals? You eat it in ever green leafed plant, but now CEO Ross Milne and his team of New Zealand-based Leaft Foods are…

Solving Infant Food Allergies with Meenal Lele

Dec 18, 2025 48m

Today's guest is Meenal Lele, CEO and Founder of Hanimune Therapeutics. Meenal joins the show to discuss a complex and frustating issue for many parents and children: food allergies. Food allergies…

Beer from Bread and Food Waste

Nov 20, 2025 50m

Today's guest is Naman Tekriwal, Co-Founder and COO of Breer, a Hong Kong-based company that makes beer from excess bread that would be otherwise wasted or thrown away. Naman and his team make the…

Making Coffee Without Coffee: Prefer CEO Jake Berber

Sep 19, 2025 41m

Today's guest is CEO and Co-founder of Prefer, Jake Berber. Jake and his Singapore-based team are working to bring the cost of coffee down by producing authentic coffee that is bean-free. They do…

The Reality of Ultra-Processed Foods: Ep 2 "Real Foods"

Aug 28, 2025 1h

Today's guest is Professor Charlotte Biltekoff, author, researcher, and lecturer at UC Davis. Dr. Biltekoff focuses on how good food became 'real' in the beginning of the 21st century and how the…

Navigating the New World Order in Food

Aug 20, 2025 59m

The food industry is changing faster than ever. New regulations, shifting political climate, and generational shifts in consumer attitudes. What do food leaders do about it? We will discuss and…

RFK & MAHA

Aug 05, 2025 37m

Today's episode is bringing back friend of the pod, Helena Bottemiller Evich, Founder and Editor-in-chief at Food Fix, one the sharpest food policy sources to exist. We're also joined by her…

The Reality of Ultra-Processed Foods: Ep 1 Dr. Richard Black

Jul 24, 2025 1h 2m

Today's guest marks the beginning of a limited series here on Food Truths where we will dive into the reality, frustrations, and misinformation surrounding ultra-processed foods. There's a lot of…

Cultured Chocolate

Jul 08, 2025 57m

Today's guest is Dr. Steven Lang, Vice President of Science and Technology for cultured chocolate company, California Cultured. Steve and his team are designing your favorite chocolate products and…

We are eating the Earth with Mike Grunwald

Jun 13, 2025 58m

Climate journalist Mike Grunwald joins the pod today to walk us through his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth. Mike is an accomplished writer and and thinker about the world we feed today and what…

Designing Fats with Physics

Jun 05, 2025 53m

Today's guest is Dr. Sydney Schreppler, Director of Product and R&D at Savor, a startup building edible fats directly from the molecule up. Sydney is a quantum physicist by training, a facet that…

How Dire Wolves Are Making Food Better and Safer

May 27, 2025 57m

Today's guest is professor R. Alta Charo, JD, world expert in emerging biotechnologies (and most recently, bringing back extinct species like the Dire Wolf). Science is rapidly changing how we…

Fat Equals Flavor with Saam Shahrokhi

May 10, 2025 54m

Today's guest is Saam Shahrohki, Chief Technology Officer at cultivated fat producer, Mission Barns. Saam is one of the first people to make cultivated meat, and the first to release cultivated fat…

The Truth about Organic Foods: Part 1 with Ricky Silver and Larissa Zimberoff

Apr 24, 2025 1h 24m

We begin a multi-part series digging into the history, the cost and efficiency, the scientific consensus, and the open questions regarding organic food production here in the US. Far from a take-down…

Ask (former) FDA regulators anything

Apr 17, 2025 1h 2m

Today's guests: Drs. Dennis Keefe and Robert "Bob" Merker are former FDA Food regulators. Together, they have over half a century of experience keeping America's food safe. We sit down for a rare…

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